Favorite bassists :
Is there such thing as a famous bassist? Besides Flea name one bassist that when you hear him/her play you're just like, oh yea man, I'm eargasming. Bassists are great, thanks for being around guys, but seriously, they're just hanging around hittin the low notes in the backround.

Favorite books :
The Jungle, Invisible Monsters, Diary, I Drink for a Reason, The Harry Potter series, Survivor, Lullaby, The Bell Jar, The Hobbit, Utopia, Catcher in the Rye, Misery, The Complete Works of the Following: Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe, and Wiliiam Shakespeare, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Haunted, The Dharma Bums, The Color Blue, Fareinheit 451, Catch 22, John Lennon: The Life, Conversations with Tom Petty, Dr, Jekyl & Mr.Hyde, A Night Without Armor, Robert Frost's A Road Less Taken: A compilation of Poetry, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 1984, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Just After Sunset, Johnny Got His Gun, The Martian Chronicles, The Biography of Tom Waits, Lafcadio, On the Road, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Steal This Book...

You can read off a list of likes and dislikes, talk about pet peevs and point of views, opinions, even religion, these things are all superficial. You really just have to be around someone to know who they are.